Methamphetamine is rarely distributed or abused in Connecticut. The
number of methamphetamine-related treatment admissions, seizures, OCDETF
investigations, and federal sentences in the state is insignificant. Only
one methamphetamine production laboratory has been seized since 1993, and
there have been no reports of methamphetamine-related violence. Caucasian
independent dealers distribute the limited quantity of methamphetamine
available in the state.

Methamphetamine is rarely abused in Connecticut. The number of
methamphetamine-related treatment admissions to publicly funded facilities
has been stable at low levels since 1994, according to TEDS data. (See Table
1 in Overview section.) Most methamphetamine abusers are teenagers and
young adults who frequent rave parties.

Methamphetamine is available in limited quantities in the state.
According to FDSS data, federal law enforcement officials rarely seized
methamphetamine in Connecticut from FY1997 through FY1999. In FY2000 DEA
seized 1 gram of methamphetamine in Bridgeport. Price and purity data for
methamphetamine currently are not available in Connecticut. There have
been no methamphetamine-related OCDETF cases or federal sentences in
Connecticut since 1999.

Only one methamphetamine production laboratory has been seized in
Connecticut since 1993. In February 2002 Enfield police were alerted to a
mobile, nonoperational methamphetamine laboratory. The laboratory had been
used to produce an unknown amount of methamphetamine in the East Hartford
area before production stopped and the laboratory was stored in Enfield.